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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I was surprised that Carroll is older than Belichick
I think it'd be amazing if he really did coach another 10-12 years into his mid-70s, averaging a 12-4 record every single year, but that's probably unlikely.I really hate Shula, and I cannot wait till the day Belichick surpasses him. The count right now... Shula: 328 career wins vs. Belichick: 211 career wins. Belichick has 118 wins left to beat Don Shula. The question is, can he do it in less than 10 years?
Just out of curiosity, what makes you feel so strongly?
We heard the same thing with Ryan Mallett.
To achieve Hall of Fame caliber success, a player or coach must have an ego that forever seeks something, anything to be motivated by in order to keep that reign alive. Belichick has that to an unimaginable degree, and that’s no criticism.
While the coach has undoubtedly appreciated and cherished his time mentoring and growing alongside one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, it’s hard to envision him taking more pride in a season than his work in 2008. Not many men could watch a franchise star go down in Week 1 and still reel off 11 wins with a guy everyone wanted cut in training camp.
Belichick has proven he can win without Brady, even reaching the playoffs with the Browns back in 1994, but he hasn’t been triumphant to the point of qualifying for a Super Bowl. To do that, as he has on five occasions in his career, he’s required Brady, just as the quarterback has needed his coach.
It’s fair to wonder, though, at 61, in seemingly good health, and as in love with the job as ever, why would he retire in the face of the next great challenge? He won’t. This is the same guy who willingly invited a bigger circus than Barnum & Bailey to town the form of Tim Tebow, and squashed the possible distraction from the moment he stepped foot in minicamp.
When Brady does opt to shift his full-time attention to his supermodel wife and kids, Belichick will be out to prove there’s no rebuild necessary in Foxborough.
Another poster said it -- sorry can't remember the poster to give credit -- BB loves the game. I expect he'll either take up a front office job or he will go assist a high school team or even a state prison team. The guy is just an absolute match for the profession he chose. He's a very lucky man in that he does what he loves (one of the rarest occurrences in life). A sad day indeed when he leaves the sidelines....
Brady and BB retire together.
I could imagine BB spending more time with his foundation and splitting his time between football and lacrosse.
(I'm armchair guessing/stranger on the internet)
Look at the amount of BS he has to deal with from the league and the media. It wouldn't surprise me if he walked in a couple of years. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if he coached at some capacity for 10+.He loves teaching football more than anything else. Absent some type of illness, it is hard to see him walking away from the game.
Look at the amount of BS he has to deal with from the league and the media. It wouldn't surprise me if he walked in a couple of years. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if he coached at some capacity for 10+.
I don't know how long he wants to stay and can only speculate. I do think that BB has a reverence for the game and the great players and coaches in it. I think that reverence combined with his intellect and adaptability would eliminate such ego driven goals as "winning one without Brady". I also think his reasons for leaving would be more pragmatic and much more within his control than a specific # of superbowl wins or some other record. I think he will do it as long as that's what he wants to do and hopefully the league and media BS doesn't shorten that.Good point Galeb. Do you think Bill would want to stay until he get his fifth Super Bowl? ...cause I definitely feel that Tommy will call it quits once he reaches that point (2-3 years is my estimate). Even with a champion-mentality, I don't know how on earth you can sustain your ambition after winning 5 Super Bowls!!!! Anything beyond that is just over-kill
Classic "Chicken or Egg" quandary.Interesting that the 3 oldest coaches in the NFL have won 3 of the last 4 Super Bowls. Although I guess it kinda makes sense, since you have to be an awfully good coach to still have a job in your 60s.
Reiss is really going out on a limb here, isn't he?!?